Monday, August 29, 2016

How will the role of a successful #HealthIT #CIO change as we enter post-EHR era?

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Last Friday the theme of the weekly #HITsm tweetchat was “The Future Skills of Health IT.” The chat was hosted by Rachel Macklin, Director of Talent Acquisition & Brand Strategy in Health IT for Jackson Health IT Staffing. Rachel can be found on Twitter as @rmacklinrecruit.All of the topics elicited a lot of good comments and ideas. Since I was not able to hang around for the last question #5, I pulled the transcript from Twitter and have culled out interesting responses; here for viewing pleasure.T5: How will the role of a successful #HealthIT #CIO change as we enter post-EHR era?

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Response to Topic #5

@nxtstop1

Think it will be quite a while before we can say we're
"post -EHR"…

@matt_r_fisher

Many of the points distill down to maturation of the CIO role.
Becoming key part of C-suite.

@textrahealth

Well, EHR's are not a total solution. So what else can be done
to #Healthcare with #DigitalHealth ? Many avenues exist to improve

@rmacklinrecruit

No longer the "IT person." That's gone. Now a
top-level resource stakeholder and facilitator, orchestrating
improvement.

Ability to Harness Info & Innovate Quickly

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Response to Topic #5

@leonjeru

Ability to harness different streams and sources of data. Filter
the noise. Keep the engine running

@ebukstel

CIOs should be judged on their ability to implement new
innovations (cloud, #infosec, analytics) not on ability to install Epic.

@sgrefrath

CIO evolves to be strategic about using information to drive
patient engagement in value driven market

Ability to Document ROI of Programs/Projects

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Response to Topic #5

@resultant

No more gold stars for EHR implementation; now need ROI with
Analytics, Process Improvement, Security, #Telemedicine

@bonitamh1

ROI, analytics w/ LEAN is the big picture

Cybersecurity, Workflow & Data Exchange

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Response to Topic #5

@matt_r_fisher

Security will continue to grow in prominence. If data can't be
protected, all will lose.

@wareflo

IMO to Chief Process Officer/Chief Workflow Officer

@textrahealth

What about #HIE? Move to #Interoperability #CareCoordination
#HealthEquity Lots more a CIO can achieve to change #Healthcare

But Wait! There's More!

One of the participants, Jared Johnson aka @jaredpiano reminded participants of two podcast interviews made with two healthcare CIO's on the evolving role of CIO.